Sewing-machine attachment.



B/FLEIGEL. SEWING MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FBB.12, 1906.

PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

UNITE STATES PAT NT OFFICE. f

BENJAMIN ,FLEIGEL, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. SEWING-MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN FLEIGEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massa chusetts, have invented an Improvement in Sewing-Machine Attachments, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention, relating to sewing-machine attachments, is herein represented as embodied in'that class'of attachmentsdesignated as an edge-gage ,1 but the features of invention to be hereinafter designated may be employed with advantage with other forms of attachmentsas, for instance, braiders, corders, hemmers, and the like.

In the manufacture of clothing where work,

such as coats, is given out to workmen in quantities to be'finished by the piece it is necessary frequently to make parallel lines of stitching in the cloth at different distances from its edge, and as edge-gages are now commonly made and used for edge-stitching if each garment is completed before commencin the edge-stitching of a second garment t e operator has to adjust the edgegage prior to each stitching operation and to make it certain that the position of the gage in its new adjustment is correct. He has after each adjustment and before commencing regular stitching to make some trial stitching to ascertain that the adjustment of the gage is just right to insure uniformity in the spacing of the edge-stitching, so that the whole lot of garments shall be stitched just alike. Very much time is lost. in making these different adjustments, and even then the stitchin on ten. or twenty coats made in succession is Tiable, due to haste or carelessness in making the adjustments, to vary and render the work unsatisfactory to the merchant for whom the clothing was made.

have made an attachment having a plurality of edge-gages, either of'which may be set with relation to the needle to insure the malnhg of lines of stitching at either of two distances from the edge of the garment, and

while one gage occupies its operative position arid receives against it the ed e of the garment theother gage may and wil be inoperative. Either of these gages may be instantly put into its inoperative position, according to which one of the gages it is desired to use. The two gages are mounted on an attaching-plate, and

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 12.1906. Serial No. 800,610.

Patented Se t. 18, 1906.

by so supporting said gages that either may be used ing the same with relationto the needle when making either line of stitching first-class work may be done, and a number of coats or garments may be stitched just alike Without any possibility of error after the gages have been once set for the particular workto be done. By the use of my improved gage an operator may turn out in the same time very much more work than with usual ed e-gages and may dothe work more uniform y, as it is almost impossible to set a gage prior to making each line of stitching in exactly the same spot, and especially so where, owing to the small pay of the operator, but little time can be spared for the adjustment of a gage to even approximate accuracy.

In accordance with my invention I have connected with an attaching-plate two holders, each provided with an edge-gage, and when para lel lines of stitchin are to be made in succession one gagemay he brought into its operative position for use and when it has been used it maybe put into its inoperative position and the other operative position. Either edge-gage may be put into its operative position whenever desired, or one or both gages may be put into their inoperative positions, leavin free space in which the operator may handle the work. I

Figure 1 in the drawings represents an attachment embodying my invention, one of the gages receiving against it the edge of the work to be stitched. The dotted lines show both gages in their inoperative positions. Fig. 2 shows in its inoperative position the gage that is shown in Fig. 1 as operative. Fig. 3 is a section enlarged in the line a;, Fig. 1.

The attaching-plate A has a hole through which and into a threaded hole in the workplate B is extended the threaded shank of a thumb-screw a, by which to fix the attachingplate to the work-plate. The attachingplate receives two stud-screws c d, the former acting as a pivotal connection for the holder C and the latter for the holder D. k

The holders C and D are each bored longitudinally for the reception of the shanks c d of the two edge-gages 0 d each shank having coacting with it a Suitable screw, as c or d', to maintain the'edgeages in any position in which they may be a justed according to the work to be done.

The holder D at the farther side of the atat will without any care as to adjustgage may occupy. its

5 attaching-plate and havin an edge 6 of said holder. 7 I to] 25 position, and it wil o stitching is nearer 'Letters Patent, is-

.taching-plat'e is shown as adapted to be looked in its operative position by a locking device comprising a spring-plate 2, repre sented as riveted'at '4, near one side to the a lip 5 to engage put the holder D in its inoperative position, the button 7 of the spring-plate 2 will be depressed or moved downwardly to disroengage the plate from the edge 6 and thereafter a spring 8, (shown only in Fig. 2,) connected at one end with theattaching-plat'e and interposed between said plate and holder D, will be released from its compressed state and will expand and move the/ older D automatically from its operative position with 'relation to the attaching-plate that it may be "turned aside, as shown in Fi 1.

The resser-foot F is anti may be of any go 'usu'al construction, and the needle of the sew- 1. An attachment for sewing-machines, an attaching-plate, means for securing it to the work-plate of the machine, a separate gage-holders, each in ependently en it is desired lurality of i a pivoted to said attachinglate to swingin a plane parallel thereto, an gages adjustably mounted within said holders to act upon the material being stitched to insure parallel relation of successively-formed lines of stitches. 2. In an attachment for sewing-machines, an attachingmlate, means for securing it to the work-plate of the machine, a plurality of holders pivotally mounted independent of each other for separate adjustments in a plane parallel to the work-plate, said holders having a fixed relation near one end of said attaching-plate,

having anend age, independently adjust-.

able longitudina ly of its holder to act upon the materi 1 being stitched to insure parallel relation of successively formed lines of stitches.

3, In a sewing-machine attachment, an attaching-plate, a plurality of connected edge-gages capable each of separat'eadjustment in the plane parallel to the bed-plate that their acting edges may occupy different positions withrelation to the line of stitching, either gage being adapted to be'moved into its inoperative position while the other gage occupies its operative position to insure parallel relation of successively-formedlines of stitches and means'fo'r automaticallyplacing one of said gages in its inoperative position.

In testimony whereof -I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. q

BENJAMIN FLEIGEL.

Witnesses: I

.GEo; W. GREGORY, ENANGELINE 0. BROWN.

and each of said holders 

